Dolores Huerta Quotes

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It's a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

Every minute a chance to change the world.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth...

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

I think we brought to the world, the United States anyway, the whole idea of boycotting as a nonviolent tactic. I think we showed the world that nonviolence can work to make social change.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

Leadership is a choice one makes.

Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.

Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

We have to get back down to basics. We have to start organizing at the neighborhood level to get people educated to vote.

My son, Emilio Huerta, is running for congress. He was a young man who was marching and picketing.

As we've focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what's being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.

Exercise your right to vote.

We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.

Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it's so simple.

Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

I call myself an addicted organizer.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought 'Wow this is the way you do it!'

We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.

My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.

I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something how can you forgive others?

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.